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What mistakes when using boric acid can ruin the tomato crop: not all summer residents know
13.06.2023 14:00
Many people know that boric acid is a well-known remedy for improving tomato yields.
Treatments based on this substance are carried out at least three times during the summer season.
However, shortcomings during the procedure can be dangerous, reminds agronomist and landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication BelNovosti.
What shortcomings can be highlighted?
Pharmacy drug instead of a product from a specialized store
At first glance, it may seem that there cannot be any fundamental difference between the drugs, since they have the same active ingredient.
But this is a misconception.
If you buy the product in a specialized store for summer residents, it dissolves without much effort, but a pharmacy product, even with active efforts, can leave undissolved crystals. Using such a product can be dangerous.
Failure to comply with weather conditions
To ensure that the fertilizing does not harm the crop, it should be done after sunset. Wind is also an important factor: its presence simply will not allow boric acid to have any effect on the development of tomatoes.
Use for seedlings
Not everyone knows that boric acid as the only active component of fertilizer can harm seedlings.
Therefore, it is better to make a choice in favor of specialized complex products.
